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An organization does not hold its position by standing still.
The Red Queen Group advises nonprofits, community-based organizations, and the philanthropists who fund them — through executive transitions, strategic planning, and the governance decisions that determine what an organization becomes next.
Evidence first. Then sequence.
Most organizations arrive knowing something is wrong and unable to name it precisely. The work begins by naming it — accurately, from outside, and from more than one vantage point.
What follows is not a list of everything worth doing. It is an ordered account of what has to happen first and what should not be started yet, because recommendations delivered out of order waste the effort spent on them.
What the practice does
Organizational Assessment A structured examination of an organization's major functions, conducted from outside it and grounded in evidence rather than impression.
Strategic Planning A plan the staff owns and the board can fund — built in the order that makes it implementable rather than the order that makes it quick.
Executive Search and Transition A search built to establish what success in the first year looks like, before a candidate is ever met.
Leadership and Governance Training Board training that begins from an assessment of this board's gaps rather than a standard curriculum.
Board and Staff Retreat Facilitation Sessions designed backward from the decision the retreat exists to reach.
Who does the work
Thirty years in the nonprofit sector, more than twenty of them as an Executive Director.
Gilles Mesrobian founded the practice after running nonprofit organizations rather than only advising them. He is a member of the faculty of Bard College's MBA in Sustainability program and a BoardSource Certified Governance Trainer.
The practice serves community-based arts and service organizations, established institutions, and the foundations and philanthropists who fund them.
It is one thing to write a plan, but quite another to implement it.
Most engagements begin with a conversation about what the organization is actually facing.